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The Machine Crusade (Legends of Dune, Book 2) (original 2003; edition 2004)

by Brian Herbert

Series: Dune: Complete Chronology (2), Legends of Dune (2), Dune (Legends 2)

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As the struggle against the thinking robots continues, Serena Butler's forces continue their battle and Selim Wormrider and his Fremen outlaws take the first step into becoming the fighters who would change history.
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Title:The Machine Crusade (Legends of Dune, Book 2)
Authors:Brian Herbert
Info:Tor Books (2004), Edition: 1, Mass Market Paperback, 800 pages
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This overall narrative arc is interesting and it is better than the previous book, The Butlerian Jihad, but there were logical inconsistencies that bothered me. One of them was the sense that Herbert and Anderson give that traditional space travel takes time between stars yet every now and then when it is convenient to the narrative they make it seem that it is of no consequence for a space ship to change course and go someplace else in an inconsequential amount of time. In addition, the cogitors and cymeks are disembodied brains and thinking machines are artificial intelligences, yet they are written as if the brains or central processing units themselves have eyes. Why would a brain need to elevate itself to look a human in the eye? Why could they not simply use a photosensitive circuit on an elevating arm do the looking for them? There are other weird examples like that in the book but those are the two that come to mind. As a result this book is really science fantasy rather than science fiction. ( )
  Neil_Luvs_Books | Feb 23, 2022 |
the story rolls along, much more history being related, very interesting! Harkonnen’s started so good too..sigh. ( )
  BookstoogeLT | Dec 10, 2016 |
Second in the prequel trilogy, this one is (again) just okay. The story is just too disjointed, the characters just a bit too black/white for it to be more than an interesting foray into someone's idea of how Herbert's DUNE got its start. ( )
  dbsovereign | Jan 26, 2016 |
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson continue their tale of the Butlerian Jihad in this second enormous installment of a trilogy. They continue to plant the seeds which will grow into the world of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Some of the characters have become a little repetitive, but overall, it makes for interesting reading if you’ve read the Dune novels.

Published in hardcover by Tor. ( )
  mmtz | May 26, 2012 |
I started to read this book immediately after finishing the first in the series, The Butlerian Jihad.The book starts off about 30 years after the first one, and moves forward pretty rapidly from there. Many of the characters are carried over from the first novel, but adapted and changed by the events that have occurred. Some characters become more sympathetic, one character in particular goes from being a likable hero into an absolute monster. The events in this book are interesting, and it reads well. There are some surprising events that shake things up quite a bit, and some very unexpected deaths at this stage of the series.This book brings many elements more inline with the familair Dune canon, explaining away some things that seemed like inconsistencies. I would still highly recommend the series. ( )
  bjh13 | Dec 28, 2011 |
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As the struggle against the thinking robots continues, Serena Butler's forces continue their battle and Selim Wormrider and his Fremen outlaws take the first step into becoming the fighters who would change history.

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The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, propelled it to the ranks of speculative fiction's classics in its own right. Now, with all the color, scope, and fascination of the prior novel, comes Dune: The Machine Crusade.
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More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad. The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Irbis Ginjo have made only slight gains; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat.

The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius--as their numbers dwindle and time begins to run out. The fighters of Ginaz, led by Jool Noret, forge themselves into an elite warrior class, a weapon against the machine-dominated worlds. Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva are on the verge of the most important discovery in human history-a way to "fold" space and travel instantaneously to any place in the galaxy.

And on the faraway, nearly worthless planet of Arrakis, Selim Wormrider and his band of outlaws take the first steps to making themselves the feared fighters who will change the course of history: the Fremen.

Here is the unrivaled imaginative power that has put Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson on bestseller lists everywhere and earned them the high regard of readers around the globe. The fantastic saga of Dune continues in Dune: The Machine Crusade.
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